The hard work paid off for Gillingham’s two-goal striker Dominic Samuel on Saturday.

A nine-game run without a goal ended with a double against Woking which got Gillingham back in the cup tie. From two goals down they eventually went on to win it 3-2.

Samuel said: “I felt that the goals would eventually come and as a striker you have to make sure your head doesn’t drop. They came on Saturday and hopefully it can carry on.

“You have to believe in your ability and the harder you work the luckier you get.

“We stuck to what we are good at and we knew if we did that we could go into the next round and that is what we did.

“I always felt we would get back into the game. We dominated the whole game but anything can happen in the competition and that’s why we had to work twice as hard.”

Samuel’s first goal came from a Jordan Graham cross. The winger also supplied the assist for the winner, as he did for John Akinde’s crucial strike at Crewe in the midweek league game.

Samuel said: “When you have a great player like Jordan with his pinpoint crossing it is important you stay inbetween the sticks. You always believe that Jordan is going to assist you, every game he is assisting, and when the ball does get to him I always feel like it is going to come to me. If I can stay within the six yard box then eventually it will fall for me.”

His second goal came after Declan Drysdale’s header bounced off the crossbar.

He said: “As a striker, you always want to get the rebounds and it doesn’t matter if it is a touchline finish or from 30 yards, you just want to get as many as you can.

“I have been unlucky in the last few games with not scoring but the harder you work the luckier you get and I feel like eventually my hard work would pay off and it did.”

Woking gave the Gills a run for their money, going two goals up before Samuel’s double, but that wasn’t a surprise to the former Blackburn man.

“When you are playing lower league teams they are going to make a game of it,” he said.

“We knew they would try and prove a point, that’s football, there are always going to be teams that are in the leagues below and they want to show they should be where we are.

“They made it hard for us, but at the end of the day goals win games and I feel like we were more clinical.”

Read more on the Gills;

• Dom’s double delights Gills

• Reaction: Relief at comeback win

• Report: Gills 3 Woking 2